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JOHN HENRY PARKER (1806-1884)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 828 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:HENRY See also:PARKER (1806-1884)  , See also:English writer on See also:architecture, the son of a See also:London See also:merchant, was See also:born on the 1st of See also:March 18o6 . He was educated at See also:Manor See also:House School, See also:Chiswick, and in 1821 entered business as a bookseller . Succeeding his See also:uncle, See also:Joseph See also:Parker, as a bookseller at See also:Oxford in 1832, he conducted the business with See also:great success, the most important of the See also:firm's publications being perhaps the See also:series of the " Oxford See also:Pocket See also:Classics." In 1836 he brought out his Glossary of Architecture, which, published in the earlier years of the See also:Gothic revival in See also:England, had considerable See also:influence in extending the See also:movement, and supplied a valuable help to See also:young architects . In 1848 he edited the fifth edition of See also:Rickman's Gothic Architecture, and in 1849 he published a handbook based on his earlier See also:volume and entitled Introduction to the Study of Gothic Architecture . The completion of See also:Hudson See also:Turner's Domestic Architecture of the See also:Middle Ages next engaged his See also:attention, three volumes being published (1853-1860) . In 1858 he published See also:Medieval Architecture of See also:Chester . Parker was one of the See also:chief See also:advocates of the " restoration " of ecclesiastical buildings, and published in 1866 Architectural Antiquities of the See also:City of See also:Wells . Latterly he devoted much attention to explorations of the See also:history of See also:Rome by means of excavations, and succeeded in satisfying himself of the See also:historical truth of much usually regarded as legendary . Two volumes of his See also:Archaeology of Rome were published at Oxford in 1874 and 1876 . In recognition of his labours he was decorated by the See also:king of See also:Italy, and received a See also:medal from See also:Pope See also:Pius IX . In 1869 he endowed the keepership of the Ashmolean Museum with a sum yielding £250 a See also:year, and under the new arrangement he was appointed the first keeper . In 1871 he was nominated C.B .

He died at Oxford on the 31st of See also:

January 1884 .

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